Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 19:56:50 -0500 From: E.J.Cerejo <ecerejo@zapo.net> To: mkb@mukappabeta.de, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: kg@dccnet.com, ecerejo@zapo.net, kstewart@owt.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade XFree86-3.3.6? to XFree86-4.X Message-ID: <20020518235623.1677E5EFB@server1.safepages.com>
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My point is if he wants to stay with the newest package versions installed then he should uninstall every distro using sysinstall and then update the ports tree and then just install everything using the ports tree. I myself don't like using portupgrade so I stay away from it, I rather do it using make. > >Subject: Re: Upgrade XFree86-3.3.6? to XFree86-4.X > From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> > Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:21:58 +0200 > To: "S. Roberts" <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> > Cc: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@dccnet.com>, ecerejo@zapo.net, > kstewart@owt.com, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > >S. Roberts writes: > >>XFree86-3.3.6 was installed during installation via /stand/sysinstall, >>so that means that its there as a distribution (right?). Does this >>really mean performing: >>1] rm -rf on /usr/XFree84* >>2] Re-build all ports that depend on XFree86 >> >>Say it ain't so! > >I think you can keep the old libraries (and hence don't have >to rebuild existing programs), since they're compatible with >the (new) X server anyways (at least at protocol level.) >The clean way would be to rebuild all X apps, after having >replaced the entire X hierarchy, tho. > >--mkb > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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